“Community groups also provide places where queer and GNC youth of color don’t have to mute some of their identities to express others, a trade-off common in dominant “LGBT-accepting” spheres where white people—especially nontrans people—are normalized and anybody not part of these categories is erased. In physical and digital communities alike, we are now in a moment where bathroom choice stirred viral hashtags, and the New York Times covered Gavin Grimm’s U.S. Supreme Court case denial, but the fact that at least seven trans women of color have been murdered so far in 2017 has received little recognition. Community centers are the counter space for folks who get the message that they don’t have any elsewhere.”
Read the full article in Rewire